Kiss My Camera 2011

Don't know how relevant this post is actually going to be, cause I'm not sure if the exhibition is still running, but last month was the start of the annual Kiss My Camera music photography exhibition run by WAM, as part of the WAMis. 50 photos all up, and for the first year included...absolutely none of mine. If I'm 100% honest I wasn't overly happy about it, but y'know. These things happen.

The gallery of the finalists is available to view at http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/explore/galleries/kiss-my-camera-2011-finalists. Jordan Shields won the Grand Prize with his portrait of Drapht, which was well deserved.

My submissions for your viewing pleasurez:

Jane's Addiction, Soundwave

Josh Pyke, Fremantle

Kasabian, Metro City

Operator Please, Capitol

Rufus Wainwright, Perth Concert Hall

 

Buried in Verona, Amplifier

Soundwave

I took some pictures at Soundwave on Monday, and now that they've been in the paper I can unleash them on the world. But I'm not actually that motivated to do a full post over at my usual photoblog jacintamathews.com so I'll just be displaying a couple of the boycrushes I didn't have prior to Soundwave, but definitely did after.

This is what Davey Havok from AFI used to look like:

Foul.

But, this is what Davey Havok looks like now:

To that I say OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. God bless the day that he decided to stop looking like a Thai transvestite, and start looking like a total hottie.

Jane's Addiction weren't even on my radar before Soundwave, but now Dave Navarro's torso is burnt into my retinas and it's all I see when I close my eyes. This isn't really a bad thing, but I'm sure my optometerist would say otherwise. Watching Perry Farrell slink around like a feline minx was pretty damn good too.

So yes, more pictures will be up on jacintamathews.com eventually, but I'm notoriously lazy about updating it, so don't hold your breath.